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Rahul Gandhi | Photo: Gandhi's Twitter handle
Nobody is above party's discipline: Raghu Sharma slams Sibal after CWC meeting
CWC unanimous on making Rahul Gandhi Congress chief: Meria Kumar
Senior Congress party leader Meira Kumar said on Saturday that the Congress Working Committee (CWC) has unanimously decided that Rahul Gandhi be made the party chief.
"Talks were held in the CWC about Rahul Gandhi becoming the president of the party and everyone unanimously said his name," Kumar told ANI.
BJP swipes at CWC with 'parivar bachao' tag, slams silence over Singhu
The BJP on Saturday mocked the Congress Working Committee meeting as "parivar bachao working committee" and alleged that it offered no answers to the issues of the party's internal rift and its leadership's failures, and instead indulged in spreading lies.
BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia also criticised the CWC for not reacting to the ghastly murder of a Dalit man at the Singhu border, one of the sites for the farmers' protests, and questioned if the opposition party stood with the "Talibani mindset" behind the killing.
Elections to Congress president's post to be held in September 2022: Report
"I will consider", says Rahul Gandhi on Congress President position: ANI
Chorus grows for Rahul Gandhi to become Congress president
No need to speak to me through media: Sonia Gandhi to G-23 leaders
Centre's foreign policy diabolical instrument of electoral mobilisation, polarisation: Sonia Gandhi
Claiming that India's foreign policy has become a diabolical instrument of electoral mobilisation and polarisation, Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday said the consensus between government and Opposition on diplomatic issues has been damaged because of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's continued reluctance to take the Opposition into confidence.
Speaking at the Congress' Working Commitee meeting, Gandhi said PM Modi's silence on borders issues is costing the nation 'dearly'.
Sonia Gandhi on G-23
"I am, if you'll allow me to say so, a full-time and hands on Congress President...," says Sonia Gandhi at CWC
The shocking incidents at Lakhimpur-Kheri recently betrays the mindset of BJP: Sonia Gandhi
It will not affect the our protest: BKU leader Rakesh Tikait on body of a man found near Delhi-Haryana border
Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram receives rainfall
CWC meet LIVE: Congress leaders meet to discuss the current political situation, upcoming Assembly polls
Coronavirus update: Total number of samples tested up to October 15, is 589,835,258
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First Published: Oct 16 2021 | 9:03 AM IST